Postdoc: Fire Dynamics & Climate-Vegetation Modeling (Hybrid)

Qabird; Leiden; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Home-working allowance

ABP pension

8% holiday allowance

8.3% end-of-year bonus

Job summary

Leiden University, in collaboration with Utrecht University, seeks a researcher to quantify fire dynamics and its impacts on vegetation and climate at regional scales using DGVMs and advanced satellite data. This role integrates large geospatial datasets to improve non-CO2 fire emissions and albedo change modeling.

You will work within the CML Institute, engaging in interdisciplinary research across ecology, climate, and fire dynamics, contributing to INFLAMES and related NL collaborations.

Qualifications

• Experience with large geospatial datasets (ERA5, CMIP6, Sentinel, MODIS).
• Experience with complex models and high performance computing, ideally DGVMs.
• Understanding and interest in interactions between ecology, climate and fires.
• A doctorate degree in a relevant field.
• Evidence of analytical thinking and scientific writing.

Responsibilities

• Adapt the fire component of a DGVM with improved representation of vegetation fire attributes.
• Evaluate and improve modeled non-CO2 fire emissions during fires.
• Evaluate and improve modeled albedo changes after fires, including recovery and possible regrowth of vegetation.
• Make predictions of future fire dynamics and its impacts on vegetation at regional scales.

Skills

Geospatial data handling

DGVMs (Dynamic Global VegetationModels

High performance computing

Ecology–climate-fire interactions

Education

Doctorate degree in a relevant field

Tools

ERA5

CMIP6

Sentinel

MODIS

Job description

Leiden University, in collaboration with Utrecht University, seeks a researcher to quantify fire dynamics and its impacts on vegetation and climate at regional scales using DGVMs and advanced satellite data. This role integrates large geospatial datasets to improve non-CO2 fire emissions and albedo change modeling.

You will work within the CML Institute, engaging in interdisciplinary research across ecology, climate, and fire dynamics, contributing to INFLAMES and related NL collaborations.